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Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Name
E-mail
Advisor
Abdelghany Abouelnagga
he/him/his
aaa31@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
Sheikh Afrid
he/him/his
safrid2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Josh Akin
jdakin2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(PHD)
Luke Akin
he/him/his
ldakin2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Advisor:
Paul Hergenrother
(PHD)
Alex George Armstrong
alexga2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Michelle Tomaszycki
(PHD)
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Chloe Armstrong
chloeca2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kent Choquette
(MS)
Advisor:
Kent Choquette
(PHD)
Hossein Ataee
he/him/his
hataee2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Takhmina Ayupova
ayupova2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Amanda Bacon
bacon4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Ále Baptista
he/him/his
aeb7@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Priyash Barya
pbarya2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(MS)
Advisor:
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
(PHD)
Sharan Mourya Bathala
he/him/his
bathala2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(PHD)
Emily Louise Becher
ebecher2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(PHD)
Abigail Berg
ab20@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(PHD)
Zhengyi Bian
zbian4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Stephan Link
(PHD)
Advisor:
Shuming Nie
(PHD)
Adrian Robert Morin Birge
arbirge2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Advisor:
Moonsub Shim
(PHD)
Jasper Bradford
he/him/his
jasperb3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Jennifer Campbell
jjc11@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Peter Dragic
(PHD)
Rajat Chakraborty
rajatc2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Jean-Pierre Leburton
(PHD)
Gayatri Pushpita Chandran
gpc4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Keith Joshua Chang
keithjc2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
Shih-Hui Chang
he/him/his
monkichi@illinois.edu
Shomik Chatterjee
shomikc2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Derek R. Chaw
drchaw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Milton Feng
(PHD)
Daren Chen
he/him/his
darenc2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
(PHD)
Sunny Chen
she/her/hers
lcchen4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Antonia Statt
(PHD)
Wang-Chien Chen
he/him/his
wcc4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Xin Chen
xinc6@illinois.edu
Ze-Wei Chen
zeweic3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Hyunseok Kim
(PHD)
Yu-Chieh Chiu
ycchiu2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(MS)
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
Yoon Young Choi
yychoi3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lili Cai
(PHD)
Stasiu Chyczewski
stasiuc2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wenjuan Zhu
(PHD)
Sam Cross
jscross3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Advisor:
Dale Van Harlingen
(PHD)
Garrett Czajkowski
he/him/his
gczajk2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kyekyoon Kim
(PHD)
Kien Dang
he/him/his
kientd2@illinois.edu
Swadhina Das
she/her/hers
das33@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Ankan Dastider
he/him/his
agd6@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(MS)
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Aman Dhoraje
he/him/his
dhoraje2@illinois.edu
Nhung Do
she/her/hers
nhungdo2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Thanh Nguyen
(PHD)
Haiyue Dong
haiyued2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Nadya Mason
(PHD)
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Yicong Dong
he/him/his
yicongd2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(MS)
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Andrew Dou
zhidou2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
William Cartwright Drennan
he/him/his
wcd2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
M Taher Saif
(PHD)
Nikita Duggar
she/her/hers
nduggar2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(PHD)
Hubert Elly
helly2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
Leah Espenhahn
leahe2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(PHD)
Xizheng Fang
xizheng2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Muhammad Fayyaz
mfayyaz2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Smith
(PHD)
Jason Flanagan
jasonpf2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(MS)
Michael Alexander Gachich
mgachi2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Peter Dragic
(MS)
Advisor:
Peter Dragic
(PHD)
Jingxing Gao
jg47@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(PHD)
Mohammadreza Ghaderinia
he/him/his
mg77@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Rashid Bashir
(PHD)
Amr Ghoname
ghoname2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Songbin Gong
(PHD)
Aayushman Ghosh
he/him/his
aghosh14@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(PHD)
Jared Gibson
jaredg2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Angela Kou
(PHD)
Miles Guo
he/him/his
ziangg2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Garima Devesh Gupta
gdgupta2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(MS)
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Junkyu Ha
he/him/his
junkyu2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Cunjiang Yu
(PHD)
Xiaoxue Han
xiaoxue6@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Irudayaraj
(PHD)
Zhuoran Han
zhuoran5@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
A. K. M. Naziul Haque
he/him/his
akhaque2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(PHD)
Yulin He
yulinh2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Milton Feng
(PHD)
Laura Heller
lheller4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
(PHD)
Da Hye Hong
she/her/hers
dhhong3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Simeon Bogdanov
(PHD)
Advisor:
Daniel Shoemaker
(PHD)
Cornell Horne, Jr
chorne7@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(MS)
Ya-Hsin Hsiao
yahsinh2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Nathan Gabrielson
(MS)
Jierui Hu
he/him/his
jieruih3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(MS)
Jack Huang
jackh4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(PHD)
Jason Huang
sh3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(PHD)
Siyuan Huang
siyuanh2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Rebecca Huang
she/her/hers
sh109@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(MS)
Zihao Huang
zihaoh5@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(PHD)
Judy Hutson
jhutson2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(MS)
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(PHD)
Yvonne Chiamaka Ilozuluike
she/her/hers
cilozu2@illinois.edu
Abdullah Irfan
irfan3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Nathaniel Atticus Irwin
he/him/his
nairwin2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(PHD)
Jai Israni
he/him/his
jai6@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Hrishikesh Iyer
htiyer2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(MS)
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Shinto James
he/him/his
shintoj2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Smith
(PHD)
Jun Young Jeon
he/him/his
jyjeon3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Hyunseok Kim
(PHD)
Sanghyun Jeon
sjeon19@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Ying Diao
(PHD)
Henry David Jetmore
jetmore2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Catherine Murphy
(PHD)
Aryaman Joshi
he/him/his
aj49@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Hyunjoon Kong
(PHD)
Md Saddam Hossain Joy
msjoy2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
M Taher Saif
(PHD)
Carlos Juarez Yescas
carlosj3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Paul Braun
(PHD)
Jason Jung
jasondj2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Gaurav Bahl
(MS)
Peter Paul Karras
pkarra2@illinois.edu
Robert Bruce Kaufman
rbkaufm2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(MS)
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(PHD)
Kimia Kazemi
kkazemi2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
-. Kevin Daniel
kdaniel5@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Axel Hoffmann
(PHD)
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Bora Kim
borak2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Gwan In Kim
he/him/his
gikim2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Gaurav Bahl
(PHD)
Hyunchul Kim
hk28@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Philip Kim
he/him/his
jk101@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Seho Kim
he/him/his
seho2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Gaurav Bahl
(PHD)
Shresht Kohli
he/him/his
shresht2@illinois.edu
Katie Koprowski
kbk3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Rashid Bashir
(PHD)
Chia-Wei Kuo
cwkuo2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Smith
(PHD)
Bao Hoang Lam
baohl2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Sonji Lamichhane
sonjil2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mary Kraft
(PHD)
Devon Owen Lee
he/him/his
devonol2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Han Lee
hankeun2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Hanwool Lee
hanwool2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wenjuan Zhu
(PHD)
Jaekwon Lee
jaekwon2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Can Bayram
(PHD)
Ki Yun Lee
kiyunyl2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
M Taher Saif
(PHD)
Alex Lee
he/him/his
salee6@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(PHD)
Ye Lin
yelin4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wenjuan Zhu
(MS)
Steffen Paul Link
link4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Songbin Gong
(MS)
Advisor:
Songbin Gong
(PHD)
Alex Littlefield
he/him/his
ajl8@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(MS)
Advisor:
Lynford Goddard
(PHD)
Haoran Liu
he/him/his
haoran7@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Leyang Liu
leyangl2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(MS)
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Shengyan Liu
sl90@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(PHD)
Suhao Liu
he/him/his
suhaol2@illinois.edu
Weinan Liu
weinanl3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Zetai Liu
zetail2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Milton Feng
(PHD)
Akshit Mahajan
he/him/his
am159@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(MS)
Rifat Mahmud
rmahmud2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Sanjiv Sinha
(PHD)
Nguyen Tuan Anh Mai
he/him/his
tamai2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Thanh Nguyen
(PHD)
Harshvardhan Mantry
he/him/his
hmantry2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Anik Mazumder
he/him/his
anik2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
J. Gary Eden
(MS)
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(PHD)
Yuvraj Misra
he/him/his
ymisra2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(MS)
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(PHD)
Niousha Mousavi
she/her/hers
mousavi3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Siva Nalla
snalla2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Smith
(PHD)
Hyunjun Nam
hn7@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
My Thi Tra Nguyen
mytn2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Ke Nie
kenie2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Angela Kou
(PHD)
Anastasiya Osher
aosher2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(PHD)
Randy Allen Owen
randyo2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Angela Kou
(PHD)
Daniel Wiley Pflug
he/him/his
dwpflug@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kent Choquette
(MS)
Kevin Peter Pikul
kpikul2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(MS)
Advisor:
John Dallesasse
(PHD)
Ujaan Purakayastha
up2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Paul Kwiat
(PHD)
Cheeranjeev Purmessur
cp45@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Angela Kou
(PHD)
Siyuan Qian
siyuanq3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Yueying Qiu
yueying9@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(PHD)
Erin Marie Raftery
raftery3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kent Choquette
(PHD)
Al-Sadiq Rahemtulla
alsadiq3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Deborah Leckband
(PHD)
Saeedur Rahman
saeedur2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
M Taher Saif
(PHD)
Sonia Rani
soniar2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Fazlur Rashid
fazlurr2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Ning Wang
(PHD)
Tucson Richelson
he/him/his
tucsonr@illinois.edu
Jaime Alexander Robertson
jaimear2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
David Ruzic
(MS)
Archishman Saha
he/him/his
asaha10@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Furkan Sahbaz
fsahbaz2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Simeon Bogdanov
(PHD)
Swetapadma Sahoo
sahoo5@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Simeon Bogdanov
(PHD)
Mahmud Samdani
he/him/his
gms13@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Jisung Seo
he/him/his
jisungs2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Hyunseok Kim
(PHD)
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Yoonjoo Seo
yoonjoo3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Na Wei
(PHD)
Connor Shannon
he/him/his
connor28@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Xin Ning
(PHD)
Yulei Shen
she/her/hers
yuleis2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Skye Shepherd
skyes2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Kaushik Singirikonda
ks105@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wolfgang Pfaff
(PHD)
Kewei Song
keweis2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Milton Feng
(PHD)
Zhantao Song
he/him/his
zhantao2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
Robert A. Stavins
stavins@illinois.edu
Advisor:
William King
(PHD)
Advisor:
Nenad Miljkovic
(PHD)
Shishir Sudhaman
shishir8@illinois.edu
Anqi Tan
anqitan2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Joseph Tibbs
he/him/his
jtibbs2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Brian Cunningham
(PHD)
Sanket Tripathy
sankett3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Simeon Bogdanov
(PHD)
Ashwin Tunga
tunga2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Shaloo Rakheja
(PHD)
Gaurav Upadhyay
gauravu2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
An Bao Van
he/him/his
anbv2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Rashid Bashir
(PHD)
Santiago Vargas-Daniels
he/him/his
sv44@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Anderson
(PHD)
Hanfei Wang
hwang267@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(MS)
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(PHD)
Hsien-Nung Wang
hnwang3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Qixian Wang
he/him/his
qixianw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
Robert Wang
he/him/his
rlwang2@illinois.edu
Siyuan Wang
siyuan2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Peter Dragic
(MS)
Advisor:
Peter Dragic
(PHD)
Yiteng Wang
yitengw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Minjoo Lee
(PHD)
Advisor:
Moonsub Shim
(PHD)
Yizun Wang
yizunw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Fan Lam
(PHD)
Zirui Wang
ziruiw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Nicola Perry
(PHD)
Advisor:
Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez
(PHD)
Matthew Wester
mwester3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Rashid Bashir
(PHD)
Brendan F. Wolan
wolan2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(PHD)
Katy Wolhaupter
kew8@illinois.edu
Isaac Mark Wolstenholme
isaacmw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wenjuan Zhu
(PHD)
Sunny Wong
sunnyw2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Violet Workman
she/her/hers
violet2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Gaurav Bahl
(PHD)
Haonan Wu
hwu60@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Milton Feng
(PHD)
Sophie Wu
she/her/hers
yuwu9@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Jacky Xiang
jiayix7@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Fengyuan Xu
he/him/his
fx2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Smith
(PHD)
Kleo Xu
wx5@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Joseph Lyding
(PHD)
Xiaotong Xu
she/her/hers
xx28@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Wenjuan Zhu
(PHD)
Na Yang
she/her/hers
nay3@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Cunjiang Yu
(PHD)
Xiaodong Ye
he/him/his
xye11@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Junxi Yi
junxiyi2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(PHD)
Dong Young Yoon
he/him/his
dy11@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Sarah Su-O Youn
ssyoun2@illinois.edu
Yung Man Yu
ymyu2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Hao Yuan
he/him/his
haoy10@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Kejie Fang
(PHD)
Hongbo Yuan
hongboy2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Mattia Gazzola
(PHD)
Kristina Yun
yyun6@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Qing Cao
(PHD)
Suyang Zhang
suyangz4@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yurii Vlasov
(PHD)
Yue Zhang
yuez11@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Zhixin Zhang
zhixin2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Axel Hoffmann
(PHD)
Kevin Zhao
helinlz2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Arend van der Zande
(PHD)
Shensheng Zhao
sz35@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yun-Sheng Chen
(PHD)
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)
Yunlei Zhao
yunleiz2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Gabriel Popescu
(PHD)
Aijia Zhou
zaijia2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Thanh Nguyen
(PHD)
Yushi Zhou
he/him/his
yushiz2@illinois.edu
Advisor:
Yang Zhao
(PHD)